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( - UTC -9 )Technical Presentation Theatre
- Multi-disciplinary solutions
Operation of uncrewed maritime vehicles in remote over-the-horizon environments depends heavily on satellite communication as their primary command and control (C2) link with other remote offshore ass … Read MoreChairperson
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( - UTC -9 )Technical Presentation Theatre
- Multi-disciplinary solutions
Reliable underwater acoustic communication (UWAC) is critical for distributed maritime operations, unmanned systems, and subsea sensor networks. In defence and security contexts, even brief communicat … Read MoreChairpersonSpeakers
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( - UTC -9 )Technical Presentation Theatre
- Multi-disciplinary solutions
Reliable underwater acoustic communication is constrained by challenging signal propagation conditions. The low speed of sound, long multipath delay spreads, scattering from sea surface and bottom, ac … Read MoreChairperson
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( - UTC -9 )Keynote TheatreThis panel will examine autonomy not as a standalone capability but as the enabler underpinning every other advance in undersea defence. It will cover the standardisation needed to control autonomy ac … Read More
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( - UTC -9 )Technical Presentation Theatre
- Multi-disciplinary solutions
In recent years, along with the expansion of offshore activities such as offshore wind farm development, subsea resource exploitation, and port and harbor construction, and with the increasing sophist … Read MoreChairpersonSpeakers
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( - UTC -9 )Technical Presentation Theatre
- Platforms and autonomous vehicles
Extra-large Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (XLUUVs) offer the potential to rapidly launch and recover smaller AUVs within onboard payload bays on the larger mothership. These launch and recovery opera … Read MoreChairperson -
( - UTC -9 )Keynote TheatreThe seabed carries the cables, pipelines and connections that allied economies and defence depend on, yet much of it sits exposed in international waters beyond the reach of any single authority. This … Read More
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( - UTC -9 )Innovation Pitch Theatre
- Platforms and autonomous vehicles
Autonomous undersea systems require resilient navigation solutions capable of maintaining accurate positioning over extended durations without access to external navigation updates. While inertial nav … Read More
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( - UTC -9 )Technical Presentation Theatre
- Platforms and autonomous vehicles
As global navies begin to commission the next generation of both crewed and uncrewed surface platforms, there is a drive towards embedding greater levels of autonomy and minimal/lean crewing. This ope … Read MoreChairpersonSpeakers -
( - UTC -9 )Innovation Pitch Theatre
- Operational Effectiveness
Emerging technologies including autonomous systems, edge processing, enhanced communications, and data exploitation are being embraced by Western navies. The future hybrid force promises integrated se … Read MoreSpeakers
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( - UTC -9 )Fireside Chat TheatreThe submarine enterprise is projected to create around 20,000 direct jobs over 30 years, the majority of them engineering and skilled-trade roles. Yet defence is recruiting from the same pool as minin … Read More
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( - UTC -9 )Technical Presentation Theatre
- Multi-disciplinary solutions
C. Francis, Senior R&D Engineer, PMB Defence Engineering Pty Ltd, 715 Mersey Road North, Osborne, SA 5017, AustraliaK. Bradley, Electrochemist, PMB Battery Technologies Ltd, Units 31 and 32, Rassau In … Read MoreChairperson -
( - UTC -9 )Innovation Pitch Theatre
- Sensors, weapons and countermeasures
Focussed beamforming extends traditional direction-finding techniques to accommodate near-field effects and broadband signals in large-aperture sonar arrays. This work explores the applicability of se … Read MoreChairperson
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( - UTC -9 )Technical Presentation Theatre
- Platforms and autonomous vehicles
As autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) undertake increasingly frequent roles across Indo-Pacific defence and maritime operations, the ability to make safe and independent decisions at sea becomes es … Read MoreChairperson
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( - UTC -9 )Technical Presentation Theatre
- Platforms and autonomous vehicles
The primary role of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) is to provide a vehicle platform to carry sensors for data collection underwater. Integration of new or additional sensors into AUVs is compl … Read MoreChairperson
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( - UTC -9 )Keynote TheatreBuilding submarines and warships is only half the task; keeping a fleet serviceable across decades is an industrial problem in its own right. This panel examines the engine behind maintenance, repair … Read MoreSpeakers
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( - UTC -9 )Technical Presentation Theatre
- Platforms and autonomous vehicles
The proliferation of adversary undersea capabilities across the Indo-Pacific region has accelerated the need for scalable, intelligent unmanned systems capable of operating collaboratively in conteste … Read MoreChairpersonSpeakers
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( - UTC -9 )Technical Presentation Theatre
- Platforms and autonomous vehicles
Technical Paper— Directional passive acoustic monitoring systems (JASCO Applied Sciences’ OceanObserver™) were deployed near Lisbon, Portugal, in September 2025 aboard five Slocum™ G3 (Teledyne Webb R … Read More
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( - UTC -9 )Technical Presentation Theatre
- Platforms and autonomous vehicles
Technical ChallengeThe integration of heterogeneous unmanned underwater, surface and aerial systems into cohesive, adaptive maritime fleets represents one of the most demanding challenges in modern un … Read More
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( - UTC -9 )Technical Presentation Theatre
- Sensors, weapons and countermeasures
Knowledge of the water-column temperature profile is critical to acoustic and optical sensor performance, yet acquiring it currently requires deploying point sensors into the water — an operation that … Read More -
( - UTC -9 )Fireside Chat TheatreAUKUS Pillar 1 now sits with the industrial leaders now tasked with turning a trilateral agreement into delivered capability. This panel brings together the business leads responsible for the nuclear- … Read More
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( - UTC -9 )Keynote TheatreMine warfare remains one of the most persistent and least resourced threats in the undersea domain, with Indo-Pacific chokepoints such as the Malacca, Taiwan, and Miyako Straits carrying an outsized s … Read More
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( - UTC -9 )Technical Presentation Theatre
- Sensors, weapons and countermeasures
Target tracking is conventionally performed using point measurement (PM) outputs from a sensor signal detector. However, when tracking targets with low signal to noise ratios (SNR), a low threshold fo … Read More
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( - UTC -9 )Fireside Chat TheatreThis panel convenes the technical leads responsible for delivering nuclear-powered submarine capability into Australian service, and for the standards, systems and stewardship beneath it. Discussion c … Read More
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( - UTC -9 )Technical Presentation Theatre
- Sensors, weapons and countermeasures
The piezoelectric ceramic is the highest cost component in bender transducers, which are critical elements in sonobuoys and future dipping sonars used on Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) and Unmanned … Read More
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( - UTC -9 )Technical Presentation Theatre
- Sensors, weapons and countermeasures
Advanced submarines use Acoustic Intercept Systems (AIS) to improve situational awareness byanalyzing data from directional wideband sensors to provide DCL (Detection, Classification andLocalization) … Read More -
( - UTC -9 )Fireside Chat TheatreThe National Defence Strategy makes self-reliance and the resilience of a sovereign defence industrial base a priority, supplemented by the $425 billion commitment in its Integrated Investment Program … Read MoreSpeakers
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( - UTC -9 )Adelaide Convention CentreOnce again the Defence Teaming Centre Defence Industry Dinner and Awards Ceremony will celebrate the year, recognise industry innovation and highlight achievement. This year the dinner will coincide w … Read More
